Improved device for hanging pictures



itnitd @getanzt CORELLI W. SIMPSON.

OF BANGOR, MAINE.

Letters Patent No. 102,167, dated April 19, 1870.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To ull 'whom vit may concern Be it known that I, GoRnnLI W. Snusox, of Bangor, in the county' of Penobscot and. State of Maine, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hanging Picture and Mirror-Frames; and I do hereby declarethat the following, taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification, is a description of my invention, suicient to enable those skilled in t-he art to which it appertains to practice it.

This invention relates to improved appliances by which picture and mirror-frames are suspended from the house-walls; and

Ihe invention consists in constructing the hooks with open instead of closed eyes, for the reception of the cord.

Also, in a cord-holder, which is attached to the nail in the wall; and

Also, in a clasp which secures the ends of the cord behind the frame.

Figure l shows in perspective a picture-frame, with my improvements suspending the same;

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the clasp opened;

Figure 3 isa horizontal section of the cord-holder, taken on line w y, g. 1;

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the hook;

Figure 5 is a vertical longitudinal section of the cord-holder in a moditied form; and

Figure 6 is also a longitudinal vertical section of the cord-holder, in .still another modified form oi' construction.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts iu the several figures.

In the drawings- A represents the frame, and

B, the cord.

d d are screw-hooks, which are formed open instead of closed, in the usual manner, so that the cord can be inserted in or removed from the hooks without nnfasteuing the ends ot' the cord.

a is'a clasp formed in two halves, and hinged at 'one side, as shown.

Serrated apertures are formed in each end, for the insertion of the ends of cord B, when, by closing the clasp and placing the rings c c upon the ends .of the clasp, it is securely locked, thereby virtually uniting the ends of the cord without an unsightly knot, yet in such manner as to allow their instant release ii' necessary.

C is the cord-holder which is shown in fig. 1, formed with a ring at the top, for suspending it upon nail b.

It has also two holes in the lower end for the cord, as is shown in tig. 3.

The holder being" formed concave upon the back side, the cord can either be passed through and the ends united behind the frame, as shown, or the ends may be knotted in the cavity behind the holder if desired.

In Iig. 5 the holder C is shown with the nail/bformed upon or rigidly attached as part of the same, while in iig 6, instead of the ring, the holder is formed nail b. It. facilitates hanging therefrom, and as it admits of great variety of design, may be' rendered an additional ornament as well as an article of utility.

The use and utility of clasp a, in connection with picture-hanging, has already been explained, and for a great variety of other purposes it is equally effective.

Having thus described my invention,

Tha-t I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 1. The hinged cord-holder or clasp a, with its rings c c, constructed as shown.

2. In combination with the hinged clasp a., the snspending cord-holderC and nail or hook d, constructed as shown and described.

CORELLI' W. SIMPSON. Witnesses O. I. BROWN, ALBERT W. PAINE. 

